1, Fuchunhuang in Yuan Dynasty
Fuchun is a paper ink painting created by Huang Yu in the Yuan Dynasty 1350. Known as "Lanting in Painting" and "The First Masterpiece of China Landscape Painting", it is one of the top ten famous paintings handed down from generation to generation in China and belongs to the national treasure cultural relics. This famous painting is set in Fuchun River, Zhejiang Province, with elegant brush and ink, proper landscape arrangement and changeable ink color. It is the representative work of Huang in his later years, the pinnacle of China's ancient ink landscape painting, and his artistic achievement in traditional landscape painting in China.
2. The Northern Song Dynasty "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" Wang Ximeng
"A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is a picture created by Wang Ximeng, a gifted scholar in Song Huizong in the Northern Song Dynasty. It is one of the top ten famous paintings handed down from generation to generation in China, belonging to the first-class cultural relics. Now it is collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing. In the form of a long scroll, the work is based on tradition and the picture is nuanced. Cloudy rivers and rolling mountains form a wonderful landscape of the south of the Yangtze River.
A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains is the work of Wang Ximeng 18 years old, and it is also the only work handed down from generation to generation. As one of the masterpieces of China's famous landscape paintings, this picture scroll is a masterpiece in the quiet green landscape painting field since the middle Tang Dynasty, which has a great influence on later generations.
3, "You Chuntu" Zhan Ziqian in Sui Dynasty
Zhan Ziqian occupies a very important position in the history of China painting and is an outstanding master in the history of landscape painting. You Chuntu, existing in the Palace Museum, is the only masterpiece handed down by Zhan Ziqian, the father of painting in the Tang Dynasty. This painting is not only a milestone of China's landscape painting, but also the oldest real landscape painting in the history of China, and it has very high value.
Among the famous landscape paintings in the past dynasties, You Chuntu was the first in the Tang Dynasty, which broke away from the tradition of taking landscape as the background of characters and became an independent article, reflecting the face of China's early landscape paintings, which can be said to be a "national treasure among national treasures".
4, "Xishan Travel Map" Fan Kuan in the Northern Song Dynasty
Journey to the Western Hills is the representative work of Fan Kuan, a painter of the Northern Song Dynasty in China, and it is also one of the representative works of classical freehand brushwork ink landscape painting. It is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. This painting depicts the typical northern scenery, and the panoramic composition of the landscape gives people a sense of momentum, which is a prominent feature of this painting.
There are many collectors' inscriptions on the painting, including the seal and color of "Treasure of Imperial Books" with obvious characteristics of the Song Dynasty, and the seal of "Treasure of Imperial Books" specially collected by Emperor Qianlong on the painting scroll. As a masterpiece in the history of painting in China, The Journey to the West is known as the "masterpiece" of painting in the Song Dynasty, and Dong Qichang, a painter and painter in the Ming Dynasty, rated it as "the first painting in the Song Dynasty".
5. Five Dynasties Southern Tang Dong Yuan's Xiaoxiang Map
Xiaoxiang Map is a masterpiece of traditional Chinese painting and landscape painting by Dong Yuan in the Southern Tang Dynasty in the Five Dynasties. It is regarded as the pioneering work of the "Southern School" landscape painting history and one of the representative works of China landscape painting history. Now it is collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
This classic Chinese painting landscape painting shows the mountains and rivers in the south, a picture of lakes and mountains, and gentle and continuous mountains. In a large area of water, there are endless sandbars and reeds, and most of the mountains are covered with horses, and the vegetation on the mountains is rendered with ink dots. The combination of the plane composition and the large area of water in the close-up makes the picture have a strong sense of space, and also presents the foggy landscape in the south of the Yangtze River.
6. Li Cheng of Maolin Yuandong Five Dynasties and Early Song Dynasty
China's landscape painting experienced the development of Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties and reached its peak in the Northern Song Dynasty. At this time, famous landscape artists came forth in large numbers, among which Li Cheng was the most famous, and was even pushed to be the first in ancient and modern times. Li Cheng is good at landscape painting, which has a great influence on its development. Unfortunately, there are not many reliable works handed down from generation to generation. The Picture of Maolin Xiu Yuan was written by Li Cheng and is now in the Liaoning Provincial Museum.
This painting depicts the scenery in summer, which is delicate and beautiful in terms of painting techniques. The combination of the "three distances" method of picture composition and the arrangement of primary and secondary density of landscape construction all reveal the typical atmosphere of landscape painting in the Northern Song Dynasty.
7. "Sailing Pavilion" in Li Sixun in Tang Dynasty
The Pavilion on the River is a landscape painting created by Li Sixun, a painter in the Tang Dynasty, and is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, China. This painting depicts swimming in spring. It is a landscape painting with "green landscape" and "golden landscape" as the main works, and it is a representative work of the style and characteristics of early green landscape painting in China.
Compared with You Chuntu, there is a vein of inheritance and development in painting techniques. Besides, The Pavilion on the River belongs to the Li Sixun School of Painting in terms of theme and expression. It is an important work to study the landscape paintings of Li Painting School, and it is also one of the most representative landscape paintings in past dynasties.
8. Li Zhaodao's "The Running Script of Huang Ming" in the Tang Dynasty
Ming Taizu Shutu is the work of landscape painters in the Tang Dynasty, and it is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Although this magnificent picture of green mountains and green waters is called Xing Shu, it depicts the misfortune of An Shi Rebellion. When the painter expressed this theme, he avoided the embarrassing side of Tang Xuanzong's escape and painted it as a scene where the emperor enjoyed a spring outing, so this painting is also called "Spring Mountain Travel Map".
This painting embodies the typical style of Erli School and has obvious characteristics of the times. It is an important handed down work reflecting the landscape paintings of the Tang Dynasty, and it is also one of the classical landscape paintings in China.
9. Hao Jing, Kuang Lu Tu after Five Dynasties.
China landscape painting developed to the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, with more diversified forms of expression, among which ink landscape gradually matured. Kuang Lu Tu is the representative work of Hao Jing, the painter of the Back Beam in the Five Dynasties and the "father of the Northern Landscape Painting School". It is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, China.
The whole painting adopts ink painting, which has both painting method and dyeing method, giving full play to the advantages of ink painting, reflecting the situation of mountains and rivers exploring thousands of miles, and taking a step forward compared with the landscapes of the Tang Dynasty. It is a masterpiece of classic freehand brushwork ink landscape painting. This painting not only uses the "brushwork of scenery", but also embodies his masterpiece of painting theory, which has a great influence on later landscape painters.
10, "Early Spring Map" Northern Song Guo
Guo was a master of ink and wash landscape painting in the Northern Song Dynasty, and his landscape painting techniques had a great influence on later generations. The Picture of Early Spring is Guo's masterpiece in his later years, and it is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
"Early Spring Map" describes the coming mountain scenery in early spring, shows the majestic momentum of the mountains and valleys in the north in early spring, and renders a quiet and vibrant atmosphere. The architecture in this painting has high historical value, and it is called "Three Great Paintings of Song Dynasty" together with Li Tang's "Wan He Song Feng Tu" and Fan Kuan's "Xi Shan Xing Tu".